W. Churchill on Islam

Mark Steyn cites the following passage from Winston Churchill's The River War (1899), a story of the Sudanese campaign:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. (snip) The influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Winnie wasn't favorably impressed.